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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8479

11 June 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/environment
2002 Bathing Water Report confirms constant improvement despite storms and floods - Vigilance must be kept up

Brussels, 10/06/2003 (Agence Europe) - Every year before the summer holidays the European Commission publishes a report on the quality of bathing water in the EU in the previous bathing season. The 2002 Bathing Water Report confirms the continual upward trend in quality seen over recent years. According to the microbiological parameters set out in the 1976/160/EEC Directive, 95.8% of the EU's coastal bathing water meets the minimum quality requirements and 91.1% of its internal bathing water...

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